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- Author:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
- Publisher:
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 9 specially commissioned articles on the role of voluntary organisations in community care provision. These include: community care implementation and disabled people; income support; carers and community care; some realities of community care planning; and the underlying driving forces.
Joint protocol between National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) and Association for Directors of Social Services (ADSS) for the provision of centres of independent living (CILs) and user led support services
- Authors:
- NATIONAL CENTRES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Support should be commissioned locally towards enabling independent living and should embody the ethos of independent living. Direct payments are primarily a means to independent living. Successful use of direct payments relies on timely and high quality access to appropriate support. Issues raised by carers organisations need to be respected and addressed. At the same time, disabled people like their non-disabled peers can be heavily influenced by significant people who surround them. It is therefore vital that local authority commissioning protocols includes requesting carer led organisations to embrace and promote concepts such as independent living, the social model of disability and the self-determination of disabled people.
Here to help: a directory of help available in Leicestershire for children and young people with disabilities or handicaps, and their carers
- Author:
- BURGESS Alan
- Publisher:
- Leicestershire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 195p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Disabled people voluntary organisations and participation in policy making
- Author:
- DRAKE Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.373-385.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Traditional disability charities have enjoyed significant access to government and have asserted the legitimacy of their participation on the basis of representing a constituency comprising disabled people and carers. However, many disabled people have declared their own preference for self-representation and have rejected the interposition of the traditional disability charities between themselves and government. The purpose of the article is to document the barriers that continue to obstruct disabled people"s access to policy making.
New lifestyles for carers: a training exercise for staff and carers based on the principle of normalisation
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, BASSETT Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- Booklet and cards in pack.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Teaching pack designed to be used in a training exercise raising issues about the way we, as individuals, and our caring services in general, relate to and affect the lives of carers of people disabilities. The pack is flexible and designed to be used with staff from health, social services, housing, and voluntary and private agencies in a wide range of settings and contexts.
Developing services for disabled people: results of an inspection to monitor the operation of the Disabled Persons...Act 1986
- Author:
- WARBURTON R. William
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 52p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a study of Social Services Departments and their implementation of those sections of the Act in force - variations between Departments was considerable.